Tom Duchamp

8.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
24 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Tom Duchamp is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Duchamp has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computational Mechanics, 14 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 6 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Tom Duchamp's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (13 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (12 papers) and Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Tom Duchamp is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (13 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (12 papers) and Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Tom Duchamp collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Tom Duchamp's co-authors include Werner Stuetzle, Tony DeRose, Hugues Hoppe, John A. McDonald, Matthias Eck, Brian Curless, Steve Capell, Zoran Popović, David Salesin and Hubert Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as The Annals of Statistics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Mathematische Annalen.

In The Last Decade

Tom Duchamp

24 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

Surface reconstruction from unorganized points 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 1993 1995 1992 1994 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Surface reconstruction from unorganized points
    1992 1.9k citations Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose et al. profile →
  2. Mesh optimization
    1993 929 citations Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose et al. profile →
  3. Multiresolution analysis of arbitrary meshes
    1995 844 citations Matthias Eck, Tony DeRose et al. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt) profile →
  4. Surface reconstruction from unorganized points
    1992 753 citations Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose et al. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics profile →
  5. Piecewise smooth surface reconstruction
    1994 501 citations Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Duchamp United States 14 3.8k 3.6k 2.4k 876 594 24 5.8k
Paul S. Heckbert United States 25 3.2k 0.8× 4.3k 1.2× 4.0k 1.7× 422 0.5× 359 0.6× 41 6.9k
Bruno Lévy France 34 4.5k 1.2× 4.2k 1.2× 2.0k 0.8× 265 0.3× 272 0.5× 98 6.5k
Matthias Zwicker United States 46 3.2k 0.9× 3.6k 1.0× 4.3k 1.8× 799 0.9× 364 0.6× 143 6.3k
Tamal K. Dey United States 36 2.4k 0.6× 2.7k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 398 0.5× 291 0.5× 184 4.5k
Ben Mildenhall United States 20 2.1k 0.6× 2.9k 0.8× 5.2k 2.2× 677 0.8× 930 1.6× 30 7.0k
Andrea Tagliasacchi Canada 32 1.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.3× 2.5k 1.1× 798 0.9× 785 1.3× 70 4.2k
Kai Xu China 39 1.9k 0.5× 1.0k 0.3× 2.4k 1.0× 969 1.1× 757 1.3× 207 4.6k
Pratul P. Srinivasan United States 25 2.3k 0.6× 3.1k 0.9× 5.7k 2.4× 670 0.8× 958 1.6× 46 7.8k
Shachar Fleishman Israel 15 2.3k 0.6× 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 0.7× 668 0.8× 262 0.4× 20 3.5k
Matthew Tancik United States 14 1.8k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 4.2k 1.8× 536 0.6× 855 1.4× 20 5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Duchamp

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Duchamp

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Duchamp

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Duchamp, Tom, Gang Xie, & Thomas Yu. (2017). Smoothing nonlinear subdivision schemes by averaging. Numerical Algorithms. 77(2). 361–379. 5 indexed citations
2.
Duchamp, Tom, Gang Xie, & Thomas Yu. (2015). A Necessary and Sufficient Proximity Condition for Smoothness Equivalence of Nonlinear Subdivision Schemes. Foundations of Computational Mathematics. 16(5). 1069–1114. 2 indexed citations
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Duchamp, Tom, et al.. (2014). The group of contact diffeomorphisms for compact contact manifolds. Journal of Symplectic Geometry. 12(1). 49–104. 2 indexed citations
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Duchamp, Tom, et al.. (2008). Anisotropic estimates for sub-elliptic operators. Science in China Series A Mathematics. 51(4). 509–522. 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Thomas, et al.. (2006). Jet subdivision schemes on the k-regular complex. Computer Aided Geometric Design. 23(4). 361–396. 8 indexed citations
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Capell, Steve, et al.. (2006). Physically based rigging for deformable characters. Graphical Models. 69(1). 71–87. 13 indexed citations
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Capell, Steve, et al.. (2005). Physically based rigging for deformable characters. 57 indexed citations
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Wood, Daniel N., et al.. (2003). View-dependent refinement of multiresolution meshes with subdivision connectivity. 69–78. 14 indexed citations
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Duchamp, Tom & Werner Stuetzle. (2003). Spline Smoothing on Surfaces. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 12(2). 354–381. 17 indexed citations
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Capell, Steve, Seth Green, Brian Curless, Tom Duchamp, & Zoran Popović. (2002). A multiresolution framework for dynamic deformations. 41–47. 109 indexed citations
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Capell, Steve, Seth Green, Brian Curless, Tom Duchamp, & Zoran Popović. (2002). A multiresolution framework for dynamic deformations. 1 indexed citations
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Wood, Daniel N., et al.. (2000). Surface light fields for 3D photography. 287–296. 327 indexed citations
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Popović, Jovan, et al.. (1996). Interactive multiresolution surface viewing. 91–98. 122 indexed citations
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Duchamp, Tom, et al.. (1995). Contact geometry and CR-structures on spheres. Banach Center Publications. 31(1). 99–113. 1 indexed citations
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Eck, Matthias, et al.. (1995). Multiresolution analysis of arbitrary meshes. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 173–182. 844 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoppe, Hugues, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, et al.. (1994). Piecewise smooth surface reconstruction. 295–302. 501 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoppe, Hugues, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John A. McDonald, & Werner Stuetzle. (1993). Mesh optimization. 19–26. 929 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoppe, Hugues, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John A. McDonald, & Werner Stuetzle. (1992). Surface reconstruction from unorganized points. 71–78. 1908 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoppe, Hugues, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John A. McDonald, & Werner Stuetzle. (1992). Surface reconstruction from unorganized points. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 26(2). 71–78. 753 indexed citations breakdown →

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